I wouldn't stress too much about 'brain rot' being the "word" of the year. The Oxford Word of the Year 2015 was the 'Face with Tears of Joy' emoji

https://languages.oup.com/word-of-the-year/2015/

That emoji is everywhere now. It didn't go away, so they were right to highlight it.

Wikipedia article with many previous words of the year from various publishers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_of_the_year

I've noticed that younger fellows like to correct people while using the crying emoji, and point disturbing stuff with the skull one. Tears of joy is probably not ironic enough for them.

Unfortunate. I love https://www.chosic.com/ to discover new music that uses the Spotify Web API.

While this update claims it's for new apps, if there's anything we've learned from Twitter, Reddit, etc. is that they will eventually kill all third-party apps.

I came across a video a few weeks ago [1] citing gate usage being monopolized by the largest 4 carriers being responsible for low cost carriers not being able to compete.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_zWxdeq8F4

It's $80/yr currently.

Looking forward to The Quantified Scientist's [1] review of it. I don't care about any of the mainstream tech reviewers who read the spec sheet. I care about the accuracy of the advertised health features.

Pixel Watch 2 was significantly better than Pixel Watch 1 but still behind an Apple Watch SE2 which is $100 cheaper.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@TheQuantifiedScientist/videos

There's some misunderstanding. It's 32 GB ROM, not RAM. RAM is 4 GB.

https://store.google.com/product/google_tv_streamer_specs

Seems pricey for what it offers. Just WiFi 5 - not even WiFi 6 or 6E, let alone WiFi 7. It doesn't even come with an HDMI cable, sigh.

Gotcha, that makes more sense.

There have been multiple attempts to clone it, but the communities there almost always end up toxic or filled with illicit activities.

Some (including me) have shifted to Lemmy, a FOSS Fediverse alternative like Mastodon is to X (Twitter). There are many instances of Lemmy to choose from as home. Mine is lemmy.world. I run a few communities there and we have a chill environment there.

If you miss the old reddit feel, you can emulate it with old.lemmy.world

Some Reddit third-party app devs converted their apps to Lemmy apps after Reddit made those API changes.

There's tildes.net which is run by a former Reddit admin, but it's smaller and invite-only.

> You want to make sure users aren’t stressing about making some final un-revokable decision before they even use the app

I've seen solutions like "if you change your mind you can access it from xyz setting". I'd much rather prefer that than constant nagging that won't go away.

You can skip pre-roll Prime ads, but they're introducing regular ads as well.

Gotta now fork up $3/mo in addition to your Prime subscription to get rid of ads.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/22/media/amazon-prime-video-ads/...

Back when phones had micro SD card slots, I would download my entire music library from music streaming services for offline listening. I also tend to take an excessive number of photos and videos in the best quality possible with my phone, and I'd offload them to the micro SD card to avoid filling up my internal storage.

4K60p video takes up a lot of space..

They still do have the card slots, just not the flagship phones.

When I was looking at the Galaxy S23, they also had their Midrange model, and that had an SD card slot. But it wasn't the hot new flagship phone.